Backup script
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Mar 13 19:03:11 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:08 +0000, Chris Norman wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got that, the only thing, when I run the script first hand, I get:
>
> : Bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>
> At the top, I have:
> #!/bin/bash
>
> I tried:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> But that got the same results. The permission bits are:
>
> -rwxr--r-- root root
>
> I'm running it as root.
>
> No probs, I have fixed that, just re-wrote it, and it seemed to work. I have
> another problem now though:
>
> Tar says it can't "stat" ls, says there's no such file or directory.
>
> here's the script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> cd /var/ftp/backup;
>
> for file in ls
The way I gave you this was
for file in `ls`
The ls is surrounded by backticks so it gets executed and the result is
a list that is passed as $file for processing in the loop.
> do {
> tar cf /home/backup/$file.tar.tar $file/
> } done
>
> What is the problem?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Norman
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michaël Hooreman" <mhooreman at be.keyware.com>
> To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 9:25 AM
> Subject: RE: Backup script
>
>
> fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com <> scribbled on lundi 13 mars 2006 10:22:
>
> > Where would I put the weekly cron job?
>
> /etc/cron.weekly if anacron runs on your machine
>
> If not, a cron line 0 0 * * 0 will run it every Sunday at 00:00. See man
> 5 crontab.
>
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